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Samba De Amigo - hands on (Samba De Amigo Wii)

Apr 17, 2008

Why do you think people love Jimmy Buffet? Or Led Zeppelin? Or reggae or house or the blues or any other kind of music? Because they evoke a mood; it makes them feel a certain way. However, very few games have this ability. Luckily, Samba De Amigo is one of those games, and the mood it evokes is, “Hey! Let’s have a crazy, possibly booze-fueled, dance party in the streets RIGHT NOW!”

The sombrero-wearing monkey ...

Samba De Amigo Wii (Samba De Amigo Wii)

Feb 15, 2008

Dreamcast's ultra-expensive novelty finds its spiritual home on Wii. Read on for our hands-on impressions of the new version - including how accurate the Wii controls really are. ...

Scarface hands-on: The Wiimote chainsaw (Scarface: The World is Yours)

Apr 5, 2007

It would be easy to pass off Scarface on Wii as a cynical attempt to eke more cash out of what was a very lucrative (and well received) game on PS2 and Xbox. In fact before GamesRadar was given the chance to get hands-on with the game, that's exactly what we were thinking - clumsily integrated Wii controls, identical (if not worse) graphics, a developer looking at us through sad eyes going through the motions of trying to sell a rehashed game as a new, exciting project. But, encouragingly, we ...

Sega Bass Fishing - hands-on (Sega Bass Fishing [2008])

Jan 30, 2008

Theres no question that fishing games are a niche genre. Theyve worn a permanent butt-groove on that “beloved by 5% of all gamers, ignored by everyone else” shelf, right between card-based Civil War tactical sims and those adventure games in which you touch preteen anime girls inappropriately. Usually, we forgive the world for not giving a crap about fishing games because most of them are boring. Real-world fishing is a zen-like exercise in which minute-long bursts of man vs. ...

Sega Superstars Tennis (Sega Superstars Tennis)

Feb 7, 2008

Question: What’s better than Virtua Tennis 3? Answer: Virtua Tennis 4. What else is better than Virtua Tennis 3? Sega Superstars Tennis - which replaces Tim Henman’s potato-faced grin with Ulala licking her lips at you before hitting the ball in a five-shaped star (Space Channel 5, get it?) while glittery pink stars explode and aliens dance everywhere. This is tennis gone mad.The concept is Sega-like in its simplicity. Take a ...

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution)

Dec 6, 2007

Dec 6, 2007 Yeah, console gamers are total morons… wait, no were not! So why do the best PC games invariably receive a total dumbing-down in their transition to the box sitting by your TV? Battlefield - complicated on the PC; dumb as a bag of dead clowns on 360. Far Cry - smart and stealthy on the PC; run-and-gun-and-eventually-not-much-fun on 360. As much as developer Firaxis would like you to think of their Civilization port as ‘streamlined, the truth is that the game we played ...

Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution (Sid Meier's Civilization Revolution)

Jul 18, 2007

The Civilization name carries a lot of weight in the PC gaming community, but not so much when it comes to action-minded console types. To that end, world-famous developer Sid Meier has built a console-specific version that streamlines the whole "epic society building" thing into a few short hours. Longtime fans know how long the typical Civ game takes. Hours upon hours can be spent tailoring your fledgling civilization from Stone Age to Space Age, sometimes even crossing the 24-hour mark. ...

SimAnimals (SimAnimals)

Sep 9, 2008

So, SimAnimals: it’s a kind of cartoon ecosystem where you play as a benevolent mother/father nature. Starting with a small area of woodland, you set about making it a pleasant place for 25 species of animals and 50 species of plants to live – not all at once though, as certain species are confined to later levels deeper within the forest. ...

The Simpsons Game - hands-on (The Simpsons Game)

Oct 12, 2007

We've played a fair few Simpsons games in our time. It goes with the job - there have been so many they're hard to avoid, like the Army Men games, or Dynasty Warriors (just considerably better). But none have really gone down as classics in the Videogaming Bible of all Things Great (if such a thing existed obviously). It looks like this might be about to change, however, with a game that comes from both the company who (arguably) knows most about videogames, EA, and the people who (unarguably) ...

The Simpsons Game (The Simpsons Game)

Oct 1, 2007

Oct 1, 2007 Theres never been a game that truly captured the The Simpsons essence. Not that thats stopped them from being successful - Hit & Run was one the all-time biggest selling PS2 games. So when The Simpsons Games Executive Producer Scot Amos began work on EAs first crack at the license, he knew that the only way forward was to rip up the yellow rulebook and start ...

The Simpsons Game video walkthrough (The Simpsons Game)

Aug 31, 2007

31 Aug 2007 Being one of the few hugely devoted Simpson's fans that religiously watches back to back episodes on cable TV every night, buys the box sets and regularly attempts to defend the recent series lack of form on the pretence they usually have at least one laugh out loud Homer moment, we've been rooting for a decent Simpsons game for years. Having to put up with people claiming that Hit 'n' Run was a 'good' Simpsons game (no it wasn't) was bad enough but the fact it turned out to be ...

The Simpsons - updated impressions (The Simpsons Game)

Aug 24, 2007

Written by Simpsons writers, developed by Simpson's fans, and safeguarded by a large team of lawyers employed to make sure they get away with all of the poking-fun-at-games-industry gags they're working on, we're really getting quite excited about this. And with "very special" features promised exclusively to the Wii edition, we might not be disappointed, ...

The Sims 2: Castaway (The Sims 2: Castaway)

Aug 31, 2007

Aug 31, 2007 The Sims 2: Castaway, or "Sims 2: Guess where the idea for this came from," as we're renaming it. Clearly a Sims game - we'd recognize that mix of skill building, house construction and clothes making anywhere - EA have ignored Ubisoft's Lost license and made their own version of the TV show. Washed up on a beach, the name of the game is building a community with mysterious "other" Sims (read: the Others). A more plot-led experience this time, reaching certain skill milestones ...

The Sims 2 Pets (The Sims 2 Pets)

May 11, 2007

Console ports of PC titles rarely work well. What can be accomplished with a few keyboard and mouse strokes on the PC often ends up as an elaborate affair of clumsily working one's way through sets of menus and commands on a console controller. Despite our warm review of the Sims 2 Pets on the PC, we just weren't feeling any puppy-love for its console cousins for this very reason. But after seeing EA's latest version of The Sims 2 Pets in action with the Wii's remote and nunchuck, it looks ...

Skate It - Hands on with Wii and DS (Skate It)

May 13, 2008

Natural disasters have turned San Verona, Skate's concrete paradise, into wreckage. The populace has been evacuated. So what's a skater to do? Answer: Carve a pinewood path through the scattered remains of all our favourite Skate spots, drops and jumps in EA's Wii and DS spin-off, Skate It.

Skate's best feature - the Flick It trick system - clearly won't transfer directly to Wii or DS. So developer Black Box has had to think of ...

Smarty Pants hands-on (Smarty Pants)

Jul 25, 2007

Wednesday 25 July 2007 Smarty Pants is a family-friendly trivia game for four players, headed to Wii this Christmas. Developer EA Los Angeles has just been granted permission to use Nintendo's treasured 'Mii' avatars, so you'll be seeing your familiar self scratching his or her head at any of 20,000 questions. When you consider that Trivial Pursuit's question count is around 6,000 questions, that's a big number. But Trivial Pursuit doesn't make you dance. This does. Players take it in turns ...

Sonic and the Secret Rings - hands-on (Sonic and the Secret Rings)

Jan 22, 2007

Things we dont like about Sonic since he went 3D: annoying cameras; humans and hedgehogs mingling like friends; misplaced attempts at ‘tude; floaty controls that feel like youre ice-skating around levels. Things we like about Secret Rings? None of these hideous, game-ruining things have sneaked in. And this Wii-exclusive Sonic is unusually ...

Sonic Wild Fire - hands on (Sonic and the Secret Rings)

May 15, 2006

There's been an awful lot of commotion surrounding Sonic's upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 adventure game. It's attempting to bring the hedgehog back to his fast-paced roots, but after just one play-through of Wii's gorgeous, speedy Sonic Wild Fire, we're already bigger fans of its one-track, racing mind. There's no adventure to be had here. Wild Fire plops Sonic on a branching, winding raceway that cuts around palm trees, collapsing pyramids and spike-filled traps. All you've got to do is use the ...

Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity (Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity)

Sep 21, 2007

Sept 21, 2007 Now, say out loud that you think the original Sonic Riders was a bit rubbish, and you'll have an army of blue hedgehog fans purposely showing you Sonic's trademark hand signal the wrong way round. But, guys, it was. Floaty, sticky, interminable, nearly-on-rails "racing" that reminded us of Kirby Air Ride - not a good thing. Zero Gravity could be much better. Wii's tilty nature was surely born for 3,700kph anti-grav hoverboard racing; improved visuals and an outer-space setting ...

Sonic Unleashed - first look (Sonic Unleashed )

May 16, 2008

Ever since the first trailer leaked onto the net a short time ago, we’ve been clamoring to hear more about Sonic Unleashed, the supposed “re-imagining” of the Sonic series after a string of commercially successful, yet dismally received entries. It’s sad that we approach each new Sonic title with trepidation, but as luck would have it, Unleashed is poised to bring the blue freak into an entirely new direction. Hitting ...